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- Title: Back Calculation of Avalanche Dimensions From Laser Scanning and sfm Photogrammetry
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, J.-M. Friedt, Ursula Enzenhofer, Florian Tolle
- Description: After avalanche events happen it is always difficult to collect useful data from the avalanche dimensions such as snow volume that was released in the...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche documentation, snow depth, laser scanning, sfm-photogrammetry, svalbard
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- Title: Effect of High Elevation Birch Forest on Snow Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
- Description: Forest and especially evergreen conifers like pine and spruce are known to reduce
avalanche formation due to their physical anchoring effect and thei...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-05.pdf
- Keywords: birch, deciduous forest, protection forest, avalanche, anchoring effect
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- Title: Can Near Real-Time Avalanche Occurrence Data Improve Avalanche Forecasting?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Avalanche forecasting is by large data driven – and experience-based. Snow instability data, which are of crucial importance, are scarce and of...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-10.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, avalanche occurrence
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- Title: The Systematic Snow Cover Diagnosis: A Process-Based Approach for Avalanche Danger Assessment
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Georg Kronthaler, Christoph Mitterer, Bernd Zenke, Michael Lehning
- Description: Recreationists and local avalanche warning services face often the problem of assessing the avalanche danger for a single slope or avalanche path. How...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-11.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, snow cover test, weak layer
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- Title: Evaluation de la Stabilité du Manteau Neigeux
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christian Reverbel
- Description: La vie d’une station de sport d’hiver est complétement dépendante de l’arrivée de la neige. Neige naturelle bien évid...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, stability
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- Title: Edge Effects In Propagation Tests
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Guidelines suggest beams with lengths around 1 m for Extended Column Tests (ECTs) and Propagation Saw Tests (PSTs). The longest unstable tests publish...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-02.pdf
- Keywords: crack propagation, extended column test, propagation saw test
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- Title: A Relative Difference Approach to Detect Potential Weak Layers Within a Snow Profile
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Reducing the subjectivity of stability evaluation derived from snow profiles and increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy i...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-30.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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- Title: Snow Profile Visualisations to Highlight Structural Instability Conditions
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Interpreting snow profiles is a fairly subjective process, especially when snow stratigraphy was recorded without performing a stability test at the s...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-31.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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- Title: A Snow Stratigraphy Comparison with the Ramsonde and Thin-Blade Penetrometer
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christopher DeVito, Andrea Tupy, Brandon Gonzales
- Description: Variations in snow density and bond strength throughout a seasonal snow pack play a major role in the formation of avalanches. Various mechanisms and ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-28.pdf
- Keywords: ramsonde, thin-blade penetrometer, tool comparison
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- Title: Tracking Melt-Freeze Crust Evolution in Val d’Aran (Catalan Pyrenees)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jon Apodaka, Montserrat Bacardit, Iván Moner, Jordi Gavaldá
- Description: In the Pyrenees, melt-freeze and wind crusts are a very common element in the snow cover. Such layers have an important role in both dry and wet slab ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-03.pdf
- Keywords: melt-freeze crust, tracking, evolution, nivology, val d’aran, pyrenees
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- Title: The Effect of Spatial Variations of Snowpack Properties on Snow Slope Stability: A Mechanically-Based Statistical Approach
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nicolas Eckert, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: The spatial variability of snowpack properties has an important impact on snow slope
stability and thus on avalanche formation. Hence, the determinat...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-07.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, slab, weak layer, spatial variability, slope stability
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- Title: Linking Weather Conditions to Snow Property Variations
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: One of the challenges to modern avalanche forecasting is to enhance the forecasts’ content with information on how snow instability varies in t...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-08.pdf
- Keywords: snow microstructure, snow properties, fracture, snow stability, spatial variability, weather
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- Title: Towards a New Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in French Mountain Ranges, Including Low Altitude Mountains
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Matthieu Lafaysse, Samuel Morin, Cecile Coleou, Matthieu Vernay, Damien Serca, Francois Besson, Jean-Marie Willemet, Gerald Giraud, Yves Durand
- Description: Operational avalanche hazard warning carried out by Météo-France for the three main mountain ranges (Alps, Pyrenees, Corsica) have used snow sim...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-02.pdf
- Keywords: snow modelling, operational, ground, mid-altitude
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- Title: SNOWPACK: Where Do We Stand Today?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Mathias Bavay, Nander Wever, Michael Lehning
- Description: We present both snow depth and precipitation driven simulations of the snow cover at Weissfluhjoch, 2540 m a.s.l., near Davos, Switzerland. We perform...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-03.pdf
- Keywords: snow, snow settlement, snow-cover modelling
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- Title: Verification of SNOWPACK Model in the Western Caucasus, Russia, for Spatial Assessment of Snow Cover Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Elena S. Klimenko
- Description: We applied physical model Snowpack, developed in Switzerland, to simulate the
evolution of snow cover in the Western Caucasus, Russia during three wi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-04.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover evolution, physical modeling, snow properties, meteorological data
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